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Daisy Alioto here. If you’re getting this email, you open Dirt more than 90% of the time…thank you! Tomorrow we’re kicking off an extra sweet collaboration. Here are some links to tide you over. 

Tina Brown joined Substack • Bridget Read’s book about pyramid schemes looks great • “Love is fundamentally an act of change; of constant negotiation.” • Gabriel Smith turns novels into sheet music • “Mostly, people say it’s a waste because if you’re crying about someone, then that’s bad.” • RIP Lillian Schwartz • A collection of Soviet and Post-Soviet lapel pins • Angel numbers are fake • But Angel Food Mag is very real • The Verge takes us back to 2004 • Spindrift’s CEO drinks six cans a day • “The problem is less that academic history books are poorly written than that they are overwritten” • Naomi Fry on “Melania” • The Chromakopia countdown begins • “Penguin Random House appears to be the first major publisher to account for AI on its copyright page” • e-flux maps the field of contemporary art • HAD’s series of 99-word stories is brilliant ▪️

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